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Cannes: Uma Thurman Playing Anita Bryant

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday May 16, 2013 @ 9:48am PDTTags: Anita, Anita Bryant, Big Deals Film, Cannes Film Festival, Cannes Wrap-Up, Uma Thurman
Mike Fleming

BREAKING: Uma Thurman will star as controversial Anita Bryant in Anita, produced by Sex And the City creator Darren Star, Howard Rosenman, Jeffrey Schwarz and Dennis Erdman. Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman will direct from a screenplay by Chad Hodge. Those filmmakers, who most recently helmed Lovelace, won Oscars for Common Threads: Stories From The Quilt and The Times Of Harvey Milk. The film will be shopped here at Cannes. It follows the singer and orange juice spokeswoman who, after allowing a gay screenwriter into her home, confronts her past and her politics which included successfully campaigning to overturn a gay rights law in Florida. Thurman next stars in Lars Von Trier’s Nymphomaniac, and the next film by the directors is The Battle Of AmFAR, which HBO broadcasts in December. UTA Independent and WME are co-repping domestic.

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Uma Thurman Signs With WME

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday September 7, 2012 @ 7:46am PDTTags: Uma Thurman, WME
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Agentless since she left her longtime reps at CAA last October, Uma Thurman has finally aligned with new representation. She has just signed with WME, I’m told. Thurman continues to be managed by Jason Weinberg at … Read More »

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Uma Thurman To Do Major Arc On ‘Smash’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday December 8, 2011 @ 4:08pm PSTTags: NBC, Smash, Uma Thurman
Nellie Andreeva

In her first series gig, Uma Thurman has been tapped for a major five-episode guest-starring arc on NBC’s midseason musical drama Smash. On the series, about the process of creating and staging Marilyn, a Broadway musical based on … Read More »

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Uma Thurman Exits CAA

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday October 31, 2011 @ 2:09pm PDTTags: CAA, Uma Thurman
Mike Fleming

Uma Thurman has discharged CAA as her agency. No specific reason was given. I’d heard that she would be in Los Angeles next week working in some agency meetings, but am told this was a business trip long in the … Read More »

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Don Winslow To Write Prequel To ‘Savages’ As Oliver Stone Ramps Up Production

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday June 6, 2011 @ 10:19am PDTTags: Aaron Johnson, Blake Lively, Don Winslow, Emile Hirsch, John Travolta, Oliver Stone, Salma Hayek, Savages, Shane Salerno, Simon & Schuster, Taylor Kitsch, Uma Thurman
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Simon & Schuster has made a deal for Don Winslow to write a prequel novel to Savages, his bestseller that forms the basis of the film that Oliver Stone will begin shooting for Universal Pictures July 6, with Taylor … Read More »

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CANNES: Sean Goes Glam Rock, Uma Leaves Town, Sarkozy Film Sold To U.S.

By PETE HAMMOND | Friday May 20, 2011 @ 6:14pm PDTTags: Awards, Cannes, Ryan Gosling, Sarkozy, Sean Penn, Uma Thurman
Pete Hammond

Sean Penn looked like he just rolled out of bed at the 11 AM press conference following the media screening of his second competition film of the week, This Must Be The Place, the first English-language film from Italian director Paolo Sorrentino ( Il Divo). He probably did, considering I spotted him having a great time in the wee hours at the Eden Roc afterparty following the big Cinema Against AIDS event at Hotel Du Cap Thursday night. These Cannes hours can be rough. He did well enough, though, trying to explain what drew him to Sorrentino’s entertaining if quirky but oddly touching story of a washed-up-at-age-50 rock star from the 1980s named Cheyenne who suffers from depression and malaise until he gets a chance at renewal upholding his late father’s honor. Early reviews I’ve read on the film range from “transformative” to “embarrassing” — in other words, mixed — with general consensus that David Byrne’s songs are keepers. Also, Penn’s go-for-broke performance, a risky and engaging and right-on-the-nose turn, is one for the ages even if you don’t personally think this movie must be the place to be. Read More »

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John Travolta, Uma Thurman And Blake Lively Join ‘Savages’ Cast

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday April 21, 2011 @ 6:36pm PDTTags: Aaron Johnson, Benicio Del Toro, Don Winslow, John Travolta, Oliver Stone, Salma Hayek, Shane Salerno, Taylor Kitsch, Uma Thurman
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Oliver Stone is putting together a killer cast for Savages, the drama based on Don Winslow’s bestselling novel.  Stone is arranging a Pulp Fiction reunion of John Travolta and Uma Thurman, as the two actors are in talks to … Read More »

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Paramount Buys ‘First Man’ For Johnny Knoxville, Ramps Up ‘Mustache Riders’ For The ‘Jackass’ Gang

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday March 3, 2011 @ 4:04pm PSTTags: CAA, Jason Reitman, Johnny Knoxville, Jonah Hill, Lee Pace, Max Winkler, Michael Angarano, Principato Young, Uma Thurman
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures has acquired a new project and  made forward progress on another that will star Johnny Knoxville, who has made the studio huge money with the Jackass films. Best of all for Knoxville, both comedies are scripted, which … Read More »

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Hollywood Accountant Ken Starr Gets 7.5 Year Jail Stretch

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday March 3, 2011 @ 6:26am PSTTags: Al Pacino, Jim Wiatt, Kenneth Starr, Kenneth Starr Fraud Charges, Kenneth Starr Guilty, Martin Scorsese, Uma Thurman
Mike Fleming

Kenneth Starr, who last May was arrested for running a Ponzi scheme on celebs that included Uma Thurman, Jim Wiatt, Martin Scorsese and Al Pacino, drew a 7.5 year sentence, the New York Daily News reports. He pleaded … Read More »

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Jim Wiatt Sues Over Ken Starr Ponzi Plot

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Monday December 20, 2010 @ 12:39pm PSTTags: Al Pacino, Jim Wiatt, Uma Thurman

I’ve just learned that Jim Wiatt, the former William Morris Agency CEO who’s now an AOL consultant, and his wife today filed a multimillion-dollar civil lawsuit seeking punitive and compensatory damages from the international law firm Winston & … Read More »

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Uma Thurman Settles £6M ‘Eloise’ Lawsuit

By TIM ADLER in London | Friday August 6, 2010 @ 6:41am PDTTags: Bert Fields, Eloise, Uma Thurman

Uma Thurman is keen to get Eloise up and running again. What’s not clear is whether Thurman will continue starring as Eloise’s long-suffering nanny or turn producer. Thurman had hired Bert Fields, Hollywood’s most feared showbiz lawyer, to represent her … Read More »

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Handmade Films Backers Buy It Back

By TIM ADLER in London | Thursday July 22, 2010 @ 8:04am PDTTags: Eloise, UK Film Production, Uma Thurman

handmade_films_logoJersey-based investors who put up the money for Planet 51, which Sony released last year, have bought Handmade Films for £6.1 million ($9.3 million). Handmade was selling the Spanish/UK co-production. The company has now delisted from the London Stock Exchange. Wealth … Read More »

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